N. M. Karamzin as an apologist of women's reading activity in the late XVIII - early XIX centuries: to 250th anniversary

Abstract

The great Russian enlightener Nikolai Karamzin as a cultural figure, writer, publisher, journalist, historian, has an active effect on the activation of Russian reading public. His special merit associated with the involvement of women in reading. In this activity N. M. Karamzin acted as a spokesman of the new social attitude towards women; a supporter of women's education; an ideologist of the new aesthetic view of a woman as the artistic legislator; a creator of literature for women; a stimulus of reader behavior rituals for women; a patron of the author's literary career of women.

Keywords

• n. m. karamzin
• the history of women's books
• n. m. karamzin and literature for women
• russian reader
• reading history
• women's reading activity